GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |